Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, stumbled Tuesday over basic American history, crediting Thomas Jefferson for authorship of the Bill of Rights during a debate over the First Amendment and campaign finance.
“I think if Thomas Jefferson were looking down, the author of the Bill of Rights, on what’s being proposed here, he’d agree with it. He would agree that the First Amendment cannot be absolute,” Mr. Schumer said.
While Jefferson is deemed the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, he was not intimately involved in the writing of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, which is the first 10 amendments to that founding document.
Indeed, Jefferson was out of the country, serving as minister to France at the time of both the Constitution convention and the congressional debate over the Bill of Rights. His fellow Virginians, James Madison and George Mason, are usually credited with being more influential in the process — Mason for being among the most forceful in demanding the protections of such a Bill of Rights, and Madison for being the political muscle that got them approved.
“Madison’s support of the bill of rights was of critical significance,” the National Archives writes on its web page. “One of the new representatives from Virginia to the First Federal Congress, as established by the new Constitution, he worked tirelessly to persuade the House to enact amendments.”
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He meant “George”
I once saw the face of Thomas Jefferson in a pile of schumer.
Chuckie musta bought his degree like the Kennedy boys.
He meant one of those old white guys.
chuck might have graduated from there but he didn’t attend any classes.
they didn’t have cameras to run in front of.
How much muck can upchuck chuck when upchuck upchucks muck?
Chucky took the same classes that Obumfuk did/didn’t.
Schumer rode the short bus at Harvard.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I see Holder & Schumer & Elmo and the new war on home grown extremists and racists has a lot to work with right there in the First Amendment.
It’s not going to happen.
Chucklehead Smiff Knows Not Of What He Speaks.
Both Chuckie and Biden claim to have graduated first in the same history class.
Classic Rush clip showing Al Gore with the question, “Who are these people?” – That idiot almost stole the presidency,
http://youtu.be/CvcvyJ-1y2A
Chuck Schumer almost makes me understand da fuhrer!
Sheesh. Schumer was my elected official for all 26 of the years I lived in Brooklyn–first as the reprsentative for the 10th (later 9th) district of New York State as my congressman, then as my Senator.
I’m embarrassed that my former neighbors couldn’t vote a sharper guy into office.